The A.M.

Come for the ambient electronics in the first hour, stay for the sprawling space disco in the post-Pride hangover special of the final hour. In between we hear from one of the few artists to appear on Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood *and* be sampled by Kanye, plus movie scores, krautrock love songs, disco reimaginings, and new wave instrumentals to ring in this Labour Day Monday.

Playlist:

• Sam Prekop - Summer Places
• Cub\cub - Nothing New Under the Sun
• Azeda Booth - Numberguts
• Asta Hiroki - Half-Bloom
• Sam Wilkes, Jacob Mann - Siri, How Do I Know If I Have Commitment Issues
• Mansur Brown - Rise
• hello moth - Misty Whimsy
• 10D3R - Flue
• Various Artists, featuring InternalEye - Blue Sky
• Eve Parker Finley - Space Jam
• David Holmes - No One Is Smarter Than History
• Martin Newell - Winter Palace 2
• Joseph Shabason - Goodbye
• No False Suns - Who Loves You Most (for Joe)
• Peel Dream Magazine - Pictionary
• Bruce Haack - Snow Job
• Tonstartssbandht - Hey Bad
• Gal Gracen - Is it Alive
• Living Hour - Middle Name
• ANOHNI - I Will Survive
• Lil Silva, featuring Badbadnotgood - To the Floor
• Laurice - Disco Spaceship
• Patrick Cowley - Invasion
• Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
• Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer
• MFSB - Mysteries of the World
• Cerrone - Supernature (Edit)
• Double Exposure - Ten Percent
• Frequency - Loosen Up

Start your week with some sunshine from Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, Kiwi Jr, Dungen, Stereolab, Pocket Pavilions, Jonathan Richman, and far too many others to list in an episode description.

Playlist:

• Pantha du Prince - Start a New Life
• Teen Daze - Modern Compromise
• Various Artists, Blackford Hill, featuring Miaoux Miaoux - Cotton Castle
• Various Artists, featuring Andrew Vivona - Empathic Psychopaths
• Personal Bandana - Celestial Ride to Rejection
• Pocket Pavilions - Expo Transit System
• Kogane - Take Care
• Seahawks - Beams of Love (Edit)
• Time Wharp - Lupron
• Oscill8 Collective, featuring verticalpark - Revitalize
• Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - Affection
• Ojard - Dormir
• Thanya Iyer - New Kind of Swim
• Gwenno - Porth Ia
• Medicine Singers - Reprise of a Cry
• Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Edge of the Edge
• Glissandro 70 - Portugal Rua Rua
• Robert Diack - Secede
• Flanafi - On O
• Raf Wilcot - Tied Up
• Paul Jacobs - Hold On
• Stelar Door - Erehwon
• Zoon, featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Astum
• Vinyl Williams - Saturnalia
• Stereolab - Cybele’s Reverie [Live at the Hollywood Bowl]
• JB Dunckel - Corporate Sunset
• Octophonic, Test Card - Mr Sun
• Dungen - Om Det Finns Något Som Du Vill Fråga Mig
• Kiwi Jr. - The Extra Sees the Film
• Ghost Woman - All Your Love
• Ennio Morricone - Senza Motivo Apparente

A foggy morning lends itself to hazy tunes, ambient interludes, and deep breaths to start off the week. The sun breaks through the clouds by the third hour, so don't worry, there's plenty of jangly goodness to get you moving, too. Plus, Wordfest's Shelley Youngblut joins to talk about this year's in-person ImaginAIRium. Have a wonderful week.

Playlist:

• Radioactive Man - Goodnight Morton
• Chad VanGaalen - Mellowbell
• Matthew Cardinal - Mar. 12th
• Café Kaput - Waves & Knots
• Dean McPhee - Ether
• Valium Aggelein - Here Comes the Black Moon
• Hermitess - Celestial Bodies - EKP Remix
• Sun Rain - Fog Dance
• CARM, featuring Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan - Already Gone
• Morgan Szymanski, Tommy Perman - Sarabande for the Souls
• Die Welttraumforscher - Sweet Bird
• Sessa - Dor Fodida
• Carla dal Forno - Come Around
• Anna Butterss - Doo Wop
• MISZCZYK, featuring Alumette - Pantin
• Pi Ja Ma - Bisou
• M83 - She Stands Up
• M83 - Slowly
• Dawn to Dawn - Ecology
• Ghostkeeper - Summer Child
• Ruby Goon - Leech!
• Goon - Fruiting Body
• LA ROSE - You Said You
• Nick Hakim - Happen
• Klarka Weinwurm - T V
• The Garrys - In the Dawn
• Zoon, featuring Sunnsetter - Red River
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Saw You at the Record Shop Today
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Vanishing Dots
• Wet Leg - Too Late Now
• Blume - Earth Shaker

More musical mantras for Monday mornings, starting with the healing sounds of Hinako Omori, wrapping with No False Suns' Calgary kosmische, and finding room for a world of synths, psychedelia, shoegaze, and sunshine pop in between. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• hinako omori - A Journey
• Skyminds - Rolling Hills
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Emile Mosseri - Green to You
• In The Well - Twice
• Lunar Lemur - There Is No Up
• Deniz Cuylan - Hidden Language of Four
• Pulselovers - Circles Within Circles
• Myna Cycles - Sun Glimmers
• Moat Bells - Circles in June
• Various Artists, featuring Zachary Gray - Apropos
• Jilo - Floating Sunset
• Pocket Pavilions - Origami Forest
• The Shangs - Eleven (Eleven They Will Never Solve)
• Alithia Leora Hambleton - Fade Out
• Dana Gavanski - Word on a Wing
• Shabason & Krgovich - I Am So Happy With My Little Dog
• Elephant's Memory - Old Man Willow
• Ghost Woman - Good
• Faith Healer - Canonized
• The Radiation Flowers - Spaceship
• Crystal Eyes - Wishes
• Blume - What Its Like
• Meditations on Crime - Crime Seed
• Panda Bear, Sonic Boom - Whirlpool
• Slight - Even Keel
• Eris Drew - Ride Free
• Kee Avil - And I
• No False Suns - 1990 or so

Greeting the sun with tasty radio waves and cool vibrations for your summertime enjoyment, with guest host Jay of Prairie Surfin'. Happy Monday my dudes!

Playlist:

• Flock - Spirit Move Within Me
• Tommy Guerrero - So Blue It's Black
• Willy Mitchell and Desert River Band - Kill'n Your Mind
• Jeff Cowell - Lucky Strike's and Liquid Gold
• Los Ecos - La Fuga Del Bandido
• Erasmo Carlos - Meu Mar
• Mamman Sani - Dangay Kotyo
• Nico Gomez and his Afro Percussion Inc - El Condor Pasa
• Chad VanGaalen - Mind Hijacker's Curse
• Steph Green - Devotion
• Cameron Brown - That's How I Got to Memphis
• White Feather - Summer Days
• Kim Gray - Compulsion
• Hamid El Shaeri - Ayonha
• Enzo Carella - Malamore
• Dream Whip - Beach Dreams
• William Onyeabor - Ride on Baby
• Peter Allan - Fisherman
• Faith Healer - Acid
• Eddie Hooper - Pass It On (Part 1)
• Kapingbdi - Why I Can't Get No Pay
• The Garrys - Sintaluta
• San Ul Lim - Tantalizing Mind
• PAINT - Land Man
• Great Speckled Bird - Long Long Time to Get Old
• Saitana - Baby Don't Go
• Lynn Castle - Rose Colored Corner
• Margo Guryan - California Shake
• Mike Nyoni And Born Free - I Don't Know
• Ghost Woman - Along
• Michel Pagliaro - Some Sing, Some Dance
• Quarteto Em Cy - Todu Que Voce Podia Ser
• Sweet Breeze - She's Cooler Than You

Chilled-out songs for an overheated Monday morning. Dreamy electronics, jazz grooves, and ocean-breeze exotica starts the holiday Monday on a refreshing note — stay cool out there, and see you in a couple weeks.

Playlist:

• Mary Lattimore, Paul Sukeena - Didn't See the Comet
• MISZCZYK, featuring The Space Lady - End Credits
• Sam Goku - Breaking Through the Soil
• NETRVNNER - Glitter Clouds
• Rival Consoles - Now Is
• Various Artists, featuring shn shn - maladaptive daydreams
• Drummachinemike - An Upgraded Death
• Salamanda - Melting Hazard
• Zeta II Reticulli - Farpoint
• Jeremy Cunningham, Paul Bryan, Dustin Laurenzi - A Better Ghost
• Carlos Niño & Friends - Actually
• Delicate Steve - Street Breeze
• Ride, featuring Robert Smith - Vapour Trail - Vapour Mix
• Inner Landscapes - In Waiting
• Inventions - Escapers
• Inventions - Springworlds
• Para Palabras - Two Lakes
• Living Hour - Miss Miss Miss
• Dawn to Dawn - Stereo
• Galaxius Mons, featuring Samantha Savage Smith - Seven Wolves Chewed Through My Flesh (Frozen Little Arrows)
• Crystal Eyes - Like a Movie
• Ryan Bourne - End of Story
• Toro Y Moi - Way Too Hot
• The Brkn Record - Break the Chains
• Kibrom Birhane - Mender
• Molly Lewis - Miracle Fruit
• Beach Towels - Drip Dry
• Wax Machine - Gaian Dream
• Monster Rally - Torchlit Cenote
• Wet Tuna - Raw Food
• Spiritualized - Always Together With You (The Bridge Song)

Start your Monday off right with mellow sounds from around the globe and across the decades. Earthy UK experimentations, an Italian Lou Reed knockoff, cosmically minded Canadian afrobeat, and a pair of singles from 1970s Morocco's grooviest siblings, all assembled to start your week off right.

Playlist:

• Various Artists, featuring Lazarus Moments - Hearts
• The Hardy Tree - Railway Tracks
• Morgan Szymanski, Tommy Perman - Fibonacci Dusk
• Saphileaum - Aerial Smell of Reality
• In The Well - Homeworld
• Forest Robots - All the Rivers Born in the Mountains
• Arp - i: /o
• hello moth - Flutterflow
• Azula, juniorodeo, Himalayan Beach Ensemble - Alpenglow
• Monster Rally - Hanging Gardens
• Stelar Door - Parallel One
• Thanya Iyer - Leave the room and face the waves
• Woo - Find the Place Where You Belong
• Pantha du Prince - Golden Galactic
• MISZCZYK, featuring Laetitia Sade - In the Dark
• Cornelius, featuring mei ehara - Change and Vanish
• Jomoro - Mirror
• Les Frères Megri - Jay-Men Baid
• Les Frères Megri - Sebar
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Conspiring with Nature
• Pi Ja Ma - La Forêt
• Zoon, featuring Jasmine Trails - OopeeUm
• Megumi Acorda - feverfew
• Victor Sogliani - L’inquietudine
• Sessa - Helena
• Raf Wilcot - Warped by Heat
• Exuma - You Don’t Know What’s Going On
• La Luz - San Fernando Shadow Blues
• Ghost Woman - Along
• Corridor - Domino
• Cola - At Pace
• Minami Deutsch - Fortune Goodies
• I Am A Coyote - Other Birds
• Medicine Singers - Sanctuary

This week's AM collects some favourites from the first half of 2022. It's already been a rich year for new music, and narrowing things down to 30 or so songs was an enjoyable but difficult task. Rural kosmische, free jazz-inflected folk, pastoral synths, and other meditative musical mantras for a Monday morning.

Happy World Listening Day.

Playlist:

• Forgiveness - Transparent
• Green-House - Morning Glory Waltz
• Charbonneau / Amato - Évaporations
• Test Card - Lynwood Alleys
• Videodrones - Ar Amarelo
• Time Wharp - Mixo World
• Felbm - Root
• Pneumatic Tubes - Mumbly-Peg
• Moat Bells - Tiny Floating Things in the Air
• tstewart - Baxter Climb
• ecotype - Inner Order
• untrained animals - Only Fan of the Space Program
• Cool Maritime - Temporal Dryft
• Sankt Otten - Hymne der melancholischen Programmierer
• Medusa Phase - The Image Burned
• Maylee Todd - Grab Your Guts
• Jenny Hval - Freedom
• Sessa - Que Lado Você Dorme?
• Alabaster dePlume - Don’t Forget You’re Precious
• Daniel Ögren - Rakkasjokk
• Fresh Pepper - Congee Around Me
• Shintaro Sakamoto - You Still OK?
• Dana Gavanski - Indigo Highway
• Ghostkeeper - Tropical Metis
• Modern Nature - Masque
• Esmerine - Fractals for Any Tonality
• Duncan Marquiss - C Sweeps
• Exek - ID’ed
• Persica 3 - Faux Punk
• Yoo Doo Right - The Failure of Stiff, Tired Friends
• Sanctums - Pattern Play

This week's episode indulges in a Stampede special, sandwiched between two hours of ambient electronics, dream pop and psychedelia. Enjoy the cosmic American music, or skip to the more familiar AM sounds — either way, hope you have a wonderful week.

Playlist:

• Sun Rain - Pebble
• Flore Laurentienne - Navigation IV
• In The Well - Quotidian
• Sam Prekop, John McEntire - A Ghost at Noon
• Hermitess - Followers - J. Alpinist Remix
• The Hardy Tree - The New River Path, August
• Füxa - Our Lips are Sealed
• Myna Cycles - Tundra
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Headlights on the Bedroom Wall
• Yu Su - Xiu
• Fiver - Song of the Mournful Millionaire
• Pierre Cavalli, Léon Francioli, Tony D'Adario - Talking Love to Sandra
• Rae Spoon - My Heart is a Piece of Garbage. Fight Seagulls Fight.
• Jim Sullivan - Lonesome Picker
• Alex Izenberg - Ladies of Rodeo
• Bill Jerpe - Another Day Goes Down
• Royal City - My Brother is the Meatman
• Kathy Heideman - Sleep a Million Years
• Bobbie Gentry - Ace Insurance Man
• Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile - Over Everything
• Willie Thrasher - Old Man Carver
• Aoife Nessa Frances - Emptiness Follows
• group O - Mountain Music
• Steven Lambke - Bats in Blue Twilight
• Wax Machine - All I Can Do
• The Pink Elephants - Star Streaming
• Dummy - Pepsi Vacuum
• Minami Deutsch - Grumpy Joa
• Wet Leg - Convincing
• Sunglaciers - Thought Maps
• Gwenno - Ardamm

A pleasant stroll through some rainy day music. Neo-classical, dream pop, art-rock, avant-jazz — the genre's less important than the mood. Cool, refreshing, and a little bit of a downer — in the best sort of way. Enjoy yr week.

Playlist:

• Max Richter - Spring 1 - Levitation Mix
• Akusmi - Yurikamome
• Gryphon Rue - Rainbow Serpent
• In The Well - Meldrum
• Ben Shemie - The Return
• Moon Apple - Making it Down
• hello moth - Ice Cubes
• Tristan Arp - From the Seams
• Tenda Senda - Inbetween World
• Fred Und Luna - Im element (UFO Hawaii Streichholz Mix)
• Maylee Todd - Fanatic
• Project Gemini - The Ritual '70
• The Blues Project - Flute Thing
• Naima Bock - Working
• Yves Jarvis - Endless Tube
• Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Les Fleurs
• Prefab Sprout - I'm 49
• Prefab Sprout - Esprit de Corps
• Joyfultalk - Blissed for a Minute
• Ennio Morricone - Matto, caldo, soldi, morto…girotondo
• Lambchop - Police Dog Blues
• Dirty Eddy - Hello Big Sky
• Death In Vegas - Aladdin's Story
• Ghostkeeper - Grassy Plains
• Hermitess - Phone call - Child Actress Remix
• Robin Guthrie - All for Nothing
• A.C. Marias - One of Our Girls Has Gone Missing
• Warpaint - Altar
• Dungen - Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus
• Possum - Ice Cream
• Cola - Water Table
• The Smile - Thin Thing
• AUA - Brick Break